Born on March 19, 1978, Herath Mudiyanselage Rangana Keerthi Bandara Herath, commonly known as Rangana Herath is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a specialist left-arm bowler, widely known as best spinner ever played for Sri Lanka after the retirement of legendary spinner Muttiah Muralitharan. He has the record of best bowling figures in Tests by a left-arm spinner.
Herath made his Test debut at Galle International Stadium, Sri Lanka against Australia in 1999. His One Day International debut came five years later in 2004, against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club. Herath is currently ranked as the number three Test match bowler in the world.[1]
Although Herath made his Test debut back in 1999, he never came to the prominence as a leading spinner until the retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan. Herath made a successful comeback to Test cricket in 2009 against Pakistan and took over the mantle of Sri Lanka’s main spin bowler from Muralitharan. Former Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene rated Herath as Sri Lanka’s number one bowler after the retirement of Muralitharan.
Herath started his cricket career at his first school Mayurapada Central College, Narammala. Later he moved to Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala. Having made his first class debut for Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club in 1996-97 cricket season, Rangana Herath currently represents Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club in Sri Lankan first class cricket.
Rangana Herath ascended to prominence against Australia in 1999 with a “mystery” ball. He broke into the national side after an impressive A tour to England. Herath while playing in two test matches in the series, deceived the visiting Australians with a delivery that darted the other way. He took six test wickets against the Australians.
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Questions of this week:
1. Who will be the captain of India A team to play against Bangladesh in the forthcoming series?
2. For which team Pankaj Singh played in IPL-8?
3. Who was nominated Secretary of J&K State Sports Council recently?
4. Which bowling rank Dale Steyn holds in World Cricket?
5. Who is Anirudh Choudhary?
Answers of the last week:
1. Axar Patel 2. KKR 3. Zameer Thakur 4. 8th 5. J&K’s former Ranji Trophy player.
The best entry of this week was received Ramesh Jasrotia, Samba.
The other entries of the week were from from Sanjay Dhar, Lane No 1, H No-3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal Jammu; Rahul Choudhary, Pouni Chak, Jammu; Sunil Kumar, Krishna Nagar, Jammu; Puneet Kumar, Digiana, Jammu; Amandeep Singh, Gangyal, Jammu and Arshid Khan, Kishtwar.
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